"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."

"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."

"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm."

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."

"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."